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Answers Corp
Type Public
Founded January 2005
Headquarters Flag of Israel Jerusalem, Israel
Flag of the United States Wesley Hills, New York, United States
Key people Bob Rosenschein
Revenue $9.30M
Employees 53
Slogan world's greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia
Website www.answers.com
Type of site Reference content
Advertising video
Registration ?
Available in English, French
Launched January 2005
Current status active
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Answers.com is a website that presents reference content in over four million entries, collected from multiple sources. Launched in January 2005, the website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) (previously GuruNet), an Israel-based Internet reference company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem and founded by Bob Rosenschein in 1999.[1]

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[edit] WikiAnswers

Answers Corporation also owns WikiAnswers, a Q&A site that uses a wiki engine to improve questions and answers. It is the second-largest Q&A site after Yahoo! Answers.[citation needed] Answers has stated that it intends to bring the two sites much closer together in order to provide various types of answers to its visitors -- both encyclopedic and "community-based".

[edit] Staff

  • Robert S Rosenschein, chairman of the board, president, chief executive officer
  • Steven Steinberg, chief financial officer, secretary
  • Bruce D Smith, chief strategic officer
  • Jeff Schneiderman, chief technical officer

[edit] References

  1. ^ answers.com Company Overview

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